Power. It isn’t equally distributed among us. It isn’t worth our energy to try and convince those that structurally have it to level the playing field. Power isn’t something to ask for, wait for or beg for. It isn’t something that will be given to us by those that use theirs against us. Power is not really ours if it stems from an outside source. That’s privilege. That’s luck. That’s not what lasts.

Power must be claimed as our own.

On our own terms. In our own way. Reflecting our own authentic expression of it.

This week the sun in Taurus makes a trine to Pluto in Capricorn, encouraging us to connect with the power that resides within our own resources. We need to work with our resources in sustainable ways. In ways that help others realize and utilize their own. In ways that open the channels of accessibility so that each of us has the opportunity to make use of what we have been given.

Power amplified will always outshine power abused and misused.

The full moon in Scorpio picks up on this vibe. The moon is equally enhanced with Pluto’s power potion, as well as Neptune’s inspiration. This full moon is sitting in a sweet spot among the stars, save for the fact that it’s in Scorpio. Scorpio doesn’t do sweet. It does intense. It does cathartic. It does down and dirty. This full moon, therefore, can be used to tap into the transformative power of the therapeutic process. This full moon can help us to understand, in greater depth, our ability to take what has been painful and pour it into what is productive. This moon can remind us of the powerful fuel that our emotions can be.

This week sees Mercury tie together the Saturn/Uranus trine. As Mercury makes one last hair-raising conjunction to Uranus, it also forms a stabilizing trine to Saturn. Having recently stationed direct, Mercury is repeating an aspect it has made over the past week and a half. This is the last of them. Now it is time to gather the innovative insights that we’ve had and devise a plan to make them a part of our everyday reality.

This all happens as Mars makes a confusing and disorienting square to Neptune, followed by a growth-enhancing trine to Jupiter. Happening within a day of each other, these aspects can produce a magnification of illusions and an influx of conversations that are either toxic or inspiring. Or both. It’s a strange combination that lingers for only a moment but long enough to wait until confusion subsides before taking action.

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Aries & Aries Rising

By now it’s clear. By now it’s self-evident. By now it’s well underway. Whatever changes you have been working to implement in your life are now well-known.

It’s time to build from this new place. It’s time to make peace with what peaced-out. It’s time to take what’s left and create new structures. Ones that can hold more possibilities. Ones that have more flexibility. One’s that aren’t dependent on any one outcome. Give your life more room to grow by being less attached to what “should” have happened by now. Or what “should” happen next. Give yourself some kudos for what you have been able to make work. Give yourself a break and declare it illegal for you to compare yourself to anyone else from here on out.

Wednesday’s full moon will help with this. It aims to help you to purge any emotions that keep you living in fear of what hasn’t come to pass. Wednesday’s full moon wants to remind you of the power of living into what is. Wednesday’s full moon highlights the collaborations that have been able to build themselves into something beautiful.

Take note of your professional relationships around the time of the full moon. Pay attention to the ones that want to lend you their energy, offer their efforts and provide you with the exact thing that you need in order to fulfill an obligation or complete a project. This full moon might be extra emotional in its effect, but it is also extra helpful in its ability to assist you in recognizing what you are able to build when you focus on forging ahead with what and whom you’ve got.

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Taurus & Taurus Rising

Wednesday’s full moon highlights the emotionally poignant issues in your relationships. It brings up the feelings that need to be felt. It brings up the fears that lie under the surface of your experience. It brings up the patterns that prevent you from knowing that you are worthy and deserving of love.

Just for the record, you are worthy and deserving love.

Anything within you that believes otherwise must be made known. Interrogated. Proven irrelevant. Case closed. End of story. Moving on.

Wednesday’s full moon wants you to notice who in your life has the beautiful ability to ride out the different emotional waves, currents and undertows that tend to take you down from time to time. We aren’t supposed to be able to manage every emotion on our own. We need each other in order to sort through the swamps of our feelings. We need each other in order to experience all aspects of our vulnerability.

We need each other in order to know ourselves.

It’s too easy to hide from our issues when left alone. It’s too easy to navigate around an honest reflection when we don’t have to face ourselves through the reflective love of another. It’s too easy to stay stunted when our hearts are left unchallenged by love. Use Wednesday’s full moon to feel into all the ways in which your relationships help you to access the power of your emotions and all the ways in which they help you to heal, grow and ultimately know yourself better.

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Gemini & Gemini Rising

Your week is an interesting mix of: (1) disorientating experiences that could end you up in deep, unfriendly waters; and (2) unexpected paths to growth.

Your job is to decipher which is which.

Knowing which illusions you usually fall for can help you navigate around the traps. Knowing what lies you most wish were true can help you spot them from far off. Knowing which fantasies you are most willing to pretend are real-life can help you to identify the mirages in the distance. Knowing which hooks catch you can help you to steer clear of the bait.

Especially when it comes to believing lies about yourself.

It’s OK to be vulnerable to fantasy as long as you are willing to struggle through reality in the end. Even the most dreamy situations involve a great deal of our honest effort.

Wednesday’s full moon amplifies the efforts that you have put forth into your projects. It magnifies what you have been working on. It gives your business a lift. It makes the feelings that you have about your work life undeniable. Be honest about what information your emotions bring. You’ll be extra tender, your body might be extra sensitive and your emotions a little closer to the surface. Feelings aren’t facts, but they point to truths we have yet to address. Take care of your physical needs as best you can. Sometimes a nap can save our lives, and our best efforts. Save yourself, and give yourself the rest you need as you can.

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Cancer & Cancer Rising

For every time you were teased for being too sensitive, for every time someone told you not to be so emotional, for every time you intuited the emotions of all those who couldn’t, and wouldn’t, Wednesday’s full moon salutes you. As it highlights the value of your emotional nature, it also points to the importance of it.

Your feelings connect you to others. Your feelings have power. The power to heal. The power to to hurt. Your feelings have a purpose, and when you find it, any shame you might have acquired about being so open to them vanishes.

There is nothing quite like understanding that what we thought was a curse actually has a purpose. Your ability to pour your emotions into your creations helps to curate their success. Never hold back that aspect of yourself, but do your best to find the right containers for it.

As the north node moves into your house of self-worth and self-supporting endeavors, you’ll begin to experience an increase of energy in this area of your life. An increased appetite for success. An increased capacity to recognize the value of your talents and resources. An increased awareness around what gets in the way of you putting your talent to use. If this week tells you anything, it’s that people want what you’ve got. The more you want what it is you have been given, the more you’ll realize how glorious and in demand your gift is.

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Leo & Leo Rising

Like an anchor dropping down to find the ocean floor, Wednesday’s full moon is encouraging you to sink into the depths of your inner life. Take a moment to get grounded. Invest in some quiet time. Give yourself permission to slow down. Enjoy what exists at the center of your life. Drink from the wells that refuse to let you go thirsty. Allow yourself to feel what you usually have no time to.

Life is fast. Its meter runs out before we are ready, most times. Don’t miss these moments.

Wednesday’s full moon comes at a time when there is a great increase of energy for you. You are entering a period of escalating activity.Encouraging growth and visibility. A phase of your life that you’ll be able to look back on as a time when many things started to take off on their own. This week in particular brings to you encouraging support. A helpful career boost. A positive promotion amongst your peers. Who you are working with, where your visions for the future intersect with theirs and what you can make out of your collaborative efforts is emphasized. Life offers you many opportunities in the coming days to keep proving yourself as a worthy shepherd of your dreams.

Therefore, this full moon is nature’s offering, a celestial gift that wants to bring balance to all the outer activity. This full moon is balancing outer success with deep and soulful meaning. Balancing the movements of your daily life with a connection to the stillness within. Balancing all your work in the world with all the reasons for doing so. What we offer out to everyone has to be in balance with the reasons why we do so. What goes out must stem from a place that is rooted deep within if we want our work in the world to be fulfilling and on purpose. Fill your wells so that the overflow can pour out to the multitudes.

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Virgo & Virgo Rising

Wednesday’s full moon amplifies all of your communications. It makes real the impact of your ideas when you express them. It makes obvious the importance of being humble enough to learn what you don’t know. Spare yourself the burden of being right. Seek out the conversations that will challenge you to deepen your ways of accessing knowledge.

Search for the ideas that become remedies to ignorance and pathways to exploring new kinds of knowing. Search for the wisdom stored in your emotions. Search for the messages your body wants to bring you. These are all ways of receiving information. Love all the ways that important information comes to you.

Wednesday’s full moon also highlights the intensity of your daily life. It increases the amount of activity in your days. Situate yourself so that you are in proximity to what helps you get through them. Get to the temples that inspire you. Get to the places that remind you of your power. Travel to the destinations that fill you with their medicine and their magic. Immerse yourself in the waters that have the ability to wash away the weariness of your soul.

This is a busy time of year for you. Make your way through the hustle and bustle while remaining connected to what keeps you grounded and supported.

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Libra & Libra Rising

One of the greatest resources we have is our ability to imagine what resilience looks like for us. Not anyone else. Not in any other time. Not in any other situation.

What does resilience look like for you in this moment? Imagine it. Imagine yourself as it. Imagine yourself choosing to find it, no matter what the issue. Imagine it as your work. As your way of tapping into your talents. As your way of contributing to the world. As a way of replenishing yourself.

Have no shame for your game if you’ve been playing it as honestly as you’ve been able to.

Wednesday’s full moon brings home the importance of working with what you have got. It makes clear the importance of taking a moment to appraise your resources, assets and financial standing. It makes clear the importance of taking a moment to praise their potency and the power that they have to support you.

The most powerful healing we can help ourselves experience comes from being in relationship with our life. Especially when we need to change the painful parts of it. We cannot change what we do not know. Knowing what it is we need to work through in our life changes our relationship to it. Be curious about what ails you. The remedy for it is in the studying of it. This is also true for any issues that you are working through in your intimate relationships. Know your intimacy issues. Know your abandonment triggers. Know yourself and your partners as best you can so that you are both working to create a relationship that fosters, feeds and finds within itself the resiliency to work through all that you are sure to face. And heal through.

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Scorpio & Scorpio Rising

While Wednesday’s full moon focuses on you, it also offers help from the partnerships that you have been cultivating. This week highlights the complimentary nature of the relationships that you have been able to build with and shows you the kind of possibilities that they posses. This week wants to help you prioritize the relationships that help you to stabilize yourself, so that your talents have the ability to breathe.

Who is around to assist you is just as important as how well you are able to help yourself.

Wednesday’s full moon wants you to remember the balance of being in partnership. It magnifies the importance of feeling held, the importance of knowing that you have others to lean on, and the importance of remembering that this is not yours to do alone.

Wednesday’s full moon wants you to remember that the relationships that help you to feel safe in the world also help you to know yourself in a deeper way. It’s hard to know who we are when we are consumed with trying to survive. It’s hard to understand our gifts when we have had to focus on just getting by. It’s hard to know what we are capable of loving ourselves through when fear takes up too much room. We need each other, we need each affirming conversation, we need each kind gesture on our path to healing and self-actualization. Wednesday’s full moon wants to affirm those relationships and have you recognize how each one teaches you to give the same love to yourself.

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Sagittarius & Sagittarius Rising

There isn’t a right way to take care of yourself. There isn’t a wrong way to take care of yourself. There isn’t one way to take care of yourself. There is only a consistent attempt at taking care of yourself in the ways that you can, with the resources that you have, given the situations that you find yourself in.

Wednesday’s full moon wants you to take care. However you can. Wherever you can. Whenever you can.

Do all you can do to meet your worldly obligations and then let go of the outcome. Count on things working out in ways you wouldn’t have guessed. Count on moving parts making quantum leaps. Count on nothing rolling out in a predictable way and you’ll enjoy the ride much more.

Accepting that there are things in life that we have no control over is a form of self-care. Knowing what we do have control over is a form of resilience. Trusting that our best efforts are exactly what our creations need is a form of self-love.

This week there are those in your life that will want to throw you off this power path, pay them no mind. This week there will be those that will see your ability to create in the face of adversity and they will want to help you out. Pay them some attention. This week others will offer you help, most likely in direct correlation to how well you are able to help yourself stay centered, gathered and clear on your responsibilities while being unwilling to be swayed by anyone’s inability to take care of their own.

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Capricorn & Capricorn Rising

Wednesday’s full moon highlights the importance of deep connections among you and your peers. It shines its light upon the faces of those that support not only your notoriety but your ultimate growth as well. It casts loving rays upon the importance of protecting the friendships that help you to find within yourself the resilient love needed to live this life.

It takes a great diversity of tactics to maneuver through all that life throws at us. It takes a village of supporters, teachers and folks willing to share with us best practices for making our way through the world. We need a variety of strategic thinkers and collaborators within our roster, each demonstrating emotionally intelligent solutions to multi-dimensional problems.

We are each other’s gateway to possibility, solution and soul-affirming evolution.

Take the full moon’s invitation to alleviate yourself of any misguided beliefs that you are in this alone. Find your people. Love them consistently. Leave them with no doubts that you are down for an honest and long-lasting friendship. Learn how to surround yourself with the folks that inspire you to make your life work, in whatever ways you can. Learn how to release the friendships that refuse to support your mutual transformation and growth. Learn how to be grateful for the tough love you are given and give it in return. The more you learn to show up in a real and sustainable way for others, the more you’ll be able to trust yourself to do the same for you.

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Aquarius & Aquarius Rising

Our real career is learning how to be ourselves, no matter what title we have been able to acquire. Not all of us have the privilege of getting to discover what it is we want to do in the world. Not all of us get the freedom to live out our dreams as we ought to be able to. Not all of us have a myriad of options to explore, making the options that we do have sacred.

Understand them as such.

Whatever dreams were planted in you, that you have the ability to chase, need to be chased with every ounce of your effort. Use the avenues open to you to develop your skills as both a leader and learner.

Your real career is learning how to give yourself fully to whatever you are doing, so that whatever goodness can come of your labor is magnified.

Wednesday’s full moon makes good on this promise. Wednesday’s full moon makes sure that you experience the importance of every ounce of effort that you have put into your work in the world. Wednesday’s full moon thanks you for your service and offers you further inspiration as to where you can go from here.

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Pisces & Pisces Rising

Wednesday’s full moon is encouraging you to seek out the poignant, not the perfect. It’s urging you to search for the meaning in your experiences, not the monuments that are popular to the masses. It wants you to explore the power of your convictions when you consistently stick by them. Not all choices that we are faced with are meant to be simple, straightforward or clear.

Do what you know is right. Repeatedly.

There is no end to taking actions that reinforce our integrity. It’s a repetitive process that is meant to layer a strength of character within us.

This full moon reveals the choices that you have made that haven’t been easy but have been incredibly important for your evolving perspective on life. It reveals that the more emotionally complex a situation, the more nuance is needed when finding solutions. It reveals that the extent to which you are able to feel your way into what is right for you rests upon your ability to acquire the necessary data to critically think your way through the problem. This applies to all areas of your life, from your bank accounts to your bedroom. From your creations to your family issues. From your investments to your professional responsibilities.

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Hi! Love, love, love the collage!
Is there any specific reason you chose to put the snakes in there? I am curious because I dreamt that I was being bit by a snake tonight, several times even. Dreaming that I told someone I dreamt I got bit as well right after! oh and now I see I’m writing this at 14:44 :O

I also have recently been dreaming about snakes! In one, two were living on my wrists like a bracelet and when I tried to remove them, they bit me slightly. Then my hands were peeling for a couple days after!

Then! I had a dream I was pregnant with a snake. But I never gave birth. Just felt it curled up in my lower abdomen.

How interesting and strange! Just the kind of thing I look forward to in life.

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